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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

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I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.

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We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

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Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

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Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

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An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

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